Castor-bean-popping house.



u Patented Dec. 25, I900. c. SAXTON.

GASTOR BEAN POPPINGHOUSE.

. (Application filed Mar. 15, 1900.)

(No Model.)

UNITE STATES PATENT OFFICE.

OHESTEEN SAXTON, or PAYNE COUNTY, OKLAHOMA TERRITORY.

CASTOR-BEAN-POPPING HOUSE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 664,586, dated December 25, 1900. Application filed March 15, 19 l0. Serial No. 8,832. (No model) be fully described herin-aftenand particu-- larly referred to in the claims g I The object of my inventiomisto" provide a castor-bean popper in which the beans may be delivered to the house from awagon and thrown in the top thereof upon a ipop'pinggrate, and the beans when popped in falling from their shells will fall through the grate and be separated from the shells, the shells going into one compartment and the beans into another.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a Vertical central longitudinal sectional view of a caster-bean popper embodying myinvention. Fig. 2 is a central cross-sectional view on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a detached perspective view of the hinged deflector and sieve.

Referring now to the drawings, A indicates the sides of my popping-house, and B the ends. The top 0 is divided in the center, one side being nailed fast and the other side 0 being divided into longitudinal sections S, whereby it may be opened more or less for the purpose of admitting thereto the beans to be popped from a wagon driven alongside of the house.

Situated Within the upper portion of the house is-a popping-grate D, which is suitably supported and made into as many sections as may be desired for the purpose of enabling it to be readily removed from the house, the number of sections varying according to the size of the house, as will be readily understood.

Situated within the house and below the popping-grate is a deflector E, the said deflector being suitably hinged at its outer end to the end of the house. This deflector extends downwardly at an inclination about half-way the length of the house, and situated in the other end of the house is an inclined sieveF, which has its inner end to project under and beyond the inner end of the deflector. The sieve has its outer end also suitablyihinged to the inner side of the opposite end of the popping-house, and the sieve and the deflector are free to be raised and lowered as desired. The inner free ends of the sieve and the'deflector are connected by means of the links a being pivotally connected with the lower end of the deflector and the lower ends of the links being provided with slots b, through which suitable pivotal pins pass into the inner and freeend of the sieve. Connected to the deflector and projecting upward and through the house andover suitable rollers or guides c are the supporting-cords G. These cordsextend outside of the house and are adapted to beoperated for the purpose of raising or lowering the deflector and the deflector beingin turn connected with the sieve, the sieve being correspondingly raised and lowered, whereby the inclination of the sieve and deflector may be varied at will as desired, and it will be noted that the sieve and the deflector are kept a suitable distance apart by means of the links before referred to.

Passing longitudinally through the house at a point below the popping-grate is a suitable heating-pipe H, there beingconnected with one end any desired heating apparatus or stove, and situated within this pipe at each end of the house will be a damper I, one adapted to retain the heat within the house and the other to cut it out, as will be readily understood.

For the purpose of dividing the house into two compartments K and L, I provide a suitable partition M, located at the lower end of the sieve, and this partition is suitably supported within the house in any desired manner.

Each end of the house below the outer end of the deflector and also below the outer end of the sieve is provided with' suitable doors N for the purpose of allowing access thereto.

In the operation of my castor-bean popper the beans are placed upon the popping-grate and the heat turned on. The beans beginning'to pop fall from their shells, and the fragments of the shells and the beans fall downward against the deflector and the sieve, those falling against the deflector being direoted againstthesieve, and the sieveisof such mesh that the beans will fall; there'- through into the compartment K,and the hulls will fall into the compartment L to be separately removed from the house.

Having thus; described myinvention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters'Pat' exit, is-

' 1. A castor-bean popper comprisinga; case below the grate, an" in weirdly-inclined sieve below the heater and popping-grate, and an oppositely inclined deflector above the-said s'ievefla'n d adaptedto'direct' th'e'f hulls against thefs'ieve" for separation, substantially asidescribed. v I

A. Acastor-be'a'n popper comprisivng' a'hous- 5 ing, spewing-grate situatedin itsflupperportion, a heater situafted"b'elovi the grate','a;n"in-' f wardly-incline'd' s'ieve situated in'one endof stantially as described.

the housing below the heater and grate, a par tit io'n dividing the lower portionof the house into two chambers, and an inclined deflector situated in the opposite end of the house below the grate and above the said sieve, sub

5. castor-bean' popper comprising a'housing, a poppinggrate in the upper portion thereof, a movable top therefor, permitting access to the popping-grate, a heater located in the house below the said grate, and a separating means situated below the heater and the gratef or separating the beans and the shells," substantially as described.

6. Acastor-bean popper comprising a housing, a popper-grate" sfituated in'the'uppe'r portionthereofya? h'eatei -pipe'extending';through ithe'said" housing, the said .pipe having dampe'rsfor controlling the passage of the heat Etherethrough, an inclined sieve" situated" in on'eend of thehousing' below thesaid pipe, a partition dividing the housing into bean and shell chambers, and an inclined deflector in the opposite e'ndof the housing", situated above the sieveand below the heating-pipe, substantially as'd'e'scribed.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

. onE'sTEEN SAX'ION.

Witnesses:

W. MATTHEWS, L. MARKS. 

